All Ernest Hemingway Quotes
There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.
Ernest Hemingway
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That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best - make it all up - but make it up so truly that later it will happen that way.
Ernest Hemingway
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In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason.
Ernest Hemingway in
War
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Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
Ernest Hemingway
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Forget your personal tragedy. We are all bitched from the start and you especially have to be hurt like hell before you can write seriously. But when you get the damned hurt, use it-don't cheat with it.
Ernest Hemingway
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Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.
Ernest Hemingway in
War
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The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green.
Ernest Hemingway in
Sports
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His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did and he did not know when it was brushed or marred.
Ernest Hemingway
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If you have a success you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work.
Ernest Hemingway
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Cowardice... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination.
Ernest Hemingway
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Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth.
Ernest Hemingway
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Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.
Ernest Hemingway
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